Entity Sources

2,936 links between entities and the sources that attest them, with evidence type and passage-level notes. The primary evidence layer: every entity classification traces to at least one record here.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

evidence_type
{'description': 'e.g. Direct attestation, Secondary analysis, Epigraphic, Numismatic'}
source_note
{'description': 'Specific passage citations and notes on how this source attests the entity'}

3 rows where entity_id = "ENT_SUF_BISTAMI"

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Link entity_id source_id evidence_type source_note
ENT_SUF_BISTAMI,SRC_ATTAR_TADHKIRAT,primary text attestation Abu Yazid al-Bistami ENT_SUF_BISTAMI Farid al-Din Attar, Tadhkirat al-Awliya (Memorial of the Saints, c. 1220) SRC_ATTAR_TADHKIRAT primary text attestation memorialized in Attar's Tadhkirat al-Awliya
ENT_SUF_BISTAMI,SRC_HUJWIRI_KASHF,direct attestation Abu Yazid al-Bistami ENT_SUF_BISTAMI Ali ibn Uthman al-Hujwiri, Kashf al-Mahjub ("The Unveiling of the Hidden"), c. 1075 CE (trans. R. A. Nicholson) SRC_HUJWIRI_KASHF direct attestation Life and shatahat of Abu Yazid al-Bistami.
ENT_SUF_BISTAMI,SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM,scholarly attestation Abu Yazid al-Bistami ENT_SUF_BISTAMI Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 1975) SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM scholarly attestation Schimmel on intoxicated Sufism and fana.

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CREATE TABLE "entity_sources" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [evidence_type] TEXT,
   [source_note] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [source_id], [evidence_type])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_source_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_entity_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([entity_id]);